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Despite the common perception that the Internet will play a critical role in corporate purchasing strategies, a report released Monday by the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) and Forrester Research found that 26.1 percent of companies reported a cost savings from their Internet activities for the quarter ended on March 31st. ...

Microsoft announced Monday that it is now offering e-commerce capability to its FrontPage 2000 Webdesign software -- but the storefront options are only being made available to subscribers of bCentral, the software giant's online service center for businesses ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced late Friday that it has cleared controversial travel site Orbitz to begin operations in June, despite complaints that it will pose an anti-competitive risk ...

With the first 100 days of his presidency coming to a close at the end of this month, President George W. Bush has yet to articulate a formal e-commerce strategy. As a result, there is some disagreement among experts on how much Bush will help the industry ...

Troubled Internet consultancy MarchFirst (Nasdaq: MRCH) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday ...

Consumer electronics e-tailer Outpost.com (Nasdaq: COOL) reported a fourth quarter 2001 loss Thursday and said that it is considering a number of cost-cutting measures, as well as strategic alternatives ...

Privacy watchdog group TRUSTe issued guidelines Wednesday designed to address the issue of what happens to consumer information when a dot-com shuts down or merges with another company ...

Net euphoria has given way to Net-phobia. According to a report released Wednesday by The Conference Board, fear of e-commerce is preventing many small and mid-sized companies from selling online ...

Internet behemoth Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and brick-and-click bookseller Borders Group (NYSE: BGP) announced Wednesday that Amazon will take over Borders' online operations ...

Many financial institutions risk losing market share because they are concentrating too much on developing new online and wireless products, rather than improving the experience customers have on their existing Web sites, according to a report released Tuesday by Jupiter Media Metrix ...

Ministers from the 15 nations of the European Union (EU) adopted a copyright directive Monday aimed at updating copyright laws for the digital age to prevent Internet and high-tech piracy of music, books and other copyrighted works ...

On Monday, Internet powerhouse eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and other prominent investors took a combined US$15 million stake in ReturnBuy.com, a company that resells returned goods for both e-tailers and retailers ...

Months after the slowdown hit the U.S. economy, a consensus has failed to materialize on which came first: the dot-com shakeout chicken or the economic downturn egg? ...

Universal Music Group stepped forward Monday to announce that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire subscription music service EMusic (Nasdaq: EMUS) in an all-cash deal worth approximately US$23 million. ...

The Internet promises a number of benefits to consumers and the economy, but there is "a real danger" that those benefits will not be realized if consumers identify the Internet with fraud operators, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) official testified Thursday ...

Continuing a raucous week in the online music sector, subscription music download service EMusic (Nasdaq: EMUS) announced Thursday that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to be acquired by a "major publicly held media company," in an all-cash transaction worth approximately US$24 million ...

More than a year after the first salvo was fired between the recording industry and digital downloading freeloaders, the music industry is still trying to develop a subscription-based service that rivals Napster in popularity ...

The future of e-commerce will include beefed-up portals, dubbed "e-commerce brokers," that will offer more than a list of links and a passive handoff to online retailers, according to a report released Thursday by Forrester Research ...

Despite an accelerating rate of e-tailer closures, e-commerce spending in Canada increased by 73.4 percent in 2000 over 1999, according to a study released Tuesday by Statistics Canada (Statscan), Canada's census agency ...

Thousands of UK e-tailers may be breaking the law by failing to comply with the Data Protection Act, a report released Tuesday by the London Chamber of Commerce (LCC) said ...